bjanele

dontwantaname wrote:OUCH!
Better to be home, than be stuck in Italy.
Unless you are retired, or have a ton of time off.

pooflady wrote:You have all my sympathy. It's even worse because there's nobody to be mad at or blame.

Thank you for your thoughts, and for the reminder to be grateful that I am not stranded somewhere at an airport in a foreign country. I am most definitely not retired, in fact still shy of 30, so hopefully there will be other chances later in my life. However, I was supposed to be traveling with my aunt who is currently on sabbatical, and for her this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To make matters worse, while there is still a chance that my flights might be okay, hers go through different airports that are currently closed. That leaves me with the awful decision of "should I still go even if she can't go?" Hopefully by tomorrow we will know what's going to happen.

dontwantaname

bjanele wrote:Thank you for your thoughts, and for the reminder to be grateful that I am not stranded somewhere at an airport in a foreign country. I am most definitely not retired, in fact still shy of 30, so hopefully there will be other chances later in my life. However, I was supposed to be traveling with my aunt who is currently on sabbatical, and for her this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To make matters worse, while there is still a chance that my flights might be okay, hers go through different airports that are currently closed. That leaves me with the awful decision of "should I still go even if she can't go?" Hopefully by tomorrow we will know what's going to happen.

Yes, it sure would be nice to have someone to blame...

They said on the news that airlines sent up planes and decided it wasn't dangerous.
Since Italy is so far away from the volcano, maybe you will be able to go.

WE LURV YOU TOO! Dork!!!
No greater love is lost than that not shared.

avosgo

I really hate it when the school nurse calls you at work to say your kid has almost a 101 degree temp, you worry and take her to the doctor and the reading is 98 degrees. Seriously? She has to miss 2 days of school because of it?!

Mavyn

First one, no problems. Changed jobs, got a new number. Discovered 3 weeks later, that number was assigned to another employee. Get a new number assigned. A month later, that line starts dialing other numbers at random. Phone would flip to speaker phone, dial, and ring and ring and ring. Techs couldn't resolve it, though they did get to witness it (thankfully, otherwise they thought I was crazy up to that point despite numerous witnesses). That line and phone were taken away and I was assigned a VOIP line. It was well behaved. Changed jobs again, new line. No problems. For 4 months. Then they moved me to a new office. Phone dials out, but no incoming calls. After 3 weeks of asking, the fix it. For 3 whole HOURS this morning, I had a phone that did what one expects a phone to do.

Then I called in to have the voice mail account reset.

And now, the phone number that was assigned to me goes to someone elses' voice mail. And I can't dial out anymore.

KtCallista

I hate when I go to start a fire, but there is no kindling (normally isn't this is the first year Orc has cut kindling in the last 5 that we've had a wood stove) and so it needs extra work to get it started, but I get pulled away by kids and the fire ultimately goes out! Grrrrr

PemberDucky

KtCallista wrote:I hate when I go to start a fire, but there is no kindling (normally isn't this is the first year Orc has cut kindling in the last 5 that we've had a wood stove) and so it needs extra work to get it started, but I get pulled away by kids and the fire ultimately goes out! Grrrrr

Is this one of them euphemisms I'm always hearing about?

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Not sure if you should post that? This slightly-nsfw-flowchart will help.

FenStar

First one, no problems. Changed jobs, got a new number. Discovered 3 weeks later, that number was assigned to another employee. Get a new number assigned. A month later, that line starts dialing other numbers at random. Phone would flip to speaker phone, dial, and ring and ring and ring. Techs couldn't resolve it, though they did get to witness it (thankfully, otherwise they thought I was crazy up to that point despite numerous witnesses). That line and phone were taken away and I was assigned a VOIP line. It was well behaved. Changed jobs again, new line. No problems. For 4 months. Then they moved me to a new office. Phone dials out, but no incoming calls. After 3 weeks of asking, the fix it. For 3 whole HOURS this morning, I had a phone that did what one expects a phone to do.

Then I called in to have the voice mail account reset.

And now, the phone number that was assigned to me goes to someone elses' voice mail. And I can't dial out anymore.

Smoothesuede

I hate getting sick.
Moreover, I hate knowing that it's one of those wait-it-out type bugs, but everyone insists you go to the doctor and shell out money for him to tell you what you already knew and give you some slightly stronger Aspirins to chug for a week.

FenStar

Do they really have to be so rude? Oh, here, yea, just go ahead an make your bed so that I have to spend a half an hour getting the sheets off to wash them. Oh, and tuck them in real tight so that anything loosely woven gets all Frankensteined out of shape when I pull them out.

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